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Haitian Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in the Media

Of all the news events which occurred between fall and spring semesters, nothing stands out like the magnitude seven earthquake and series of aftershocks that have rocked Haiti since Jan. 12. News media outlets are always challenged in a number of ways when tasked with reporting on a tragedy of this scale. As journalists, how much suffering and helplessness can we observe before breaching our standards and injecting ourselves to lend a hand out of human decency?

Ask anyone on campus to list their biggest complaints. Whether justified or not, the issue of parking is bound to come up. It seems everyone has a parking story to tell. Well I've got a story as well, but this one has a bittersweet resolution – in a way, I won.

Welcome back to another semester at CSU and another semester of The Cleveland Stater.
For those who don’t know, The Cleveland Stater is a laboratory newspaper run by CSU students from the School of Communication.
Our main focus is within the city and the university, but we also look at broader issues in the state, the nation and the world.